BSNY. Who is he?
 

If you have not checked out his blog you should. Really funny stuff. He has a real distaste for Fixed gear free-stylers and Tri-Geeks. Anyway it sounds like he is a celebrity of sorts but won't tel anyone his true identity. I was curious if anyone here read his blog or has any ideas about who he really is. I already ruled out Pcad.

i check his blog out occasionally, but i'm of the feeling he's really a closet fred.
i like www.belgiumkneewarmers.com much better- less negativity, and PRO is always PROgram GO...

my future husband

link?

and its www.belgiumkneewarmers.com

:)

I dunno... I've read the Belgian guy and he's cool and all... but BSNY has had me laughing so hard that the wife came to check on me.

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/

He is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...

I hate Churchill

Certainly quotable, though...

...and his quotes.

He had a stutter AND a lisp... I didn't know that.

Besides, he's been the model for newborn babies in the western world for years now...

http://images.quickblogcast.com/51906-46919/related.jpg

merci beaucoup...

I could tell you...but then I'd have to kill you.:twitchy:

From his Monday, June 23rd blog post:
"However, it looks like I'm going to need a new bike sooner than I intended, since I smashed my last one to bits Pete Townshend-style this past weekend after failing to win yet another road race due entirely to my outmoded front end setup. (Though to be fair my lack of an eleventh cog was also partly to blame.)

As such, I spent the rest of the weekend researching new bikes, which consisted mostly of reading reviews online while picking my teeth with a shard of carbon fiber from my freshly-shattered frame."

I think this is give away to anyone else who raced Prospect Park on Sunday here in Brooklyn NY. Some fella, coughpossiblybikesnobcough raced in the 3/4's and got caught up in the nasty crash towards the end of the race, where his Giant road bike went from one piece to two plus.
Hmmmmm.............

He's pretty much amazing as a writer and accurate critic of all things cycling.

He also has a very good soft side indicated in his really good June 19th post (http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008...tacles-to.html)

I don't really care about "who he really is". I know he's damn spot on with most of his critiques, witty, and funny writer.

He's on my daily read list.

it's a razor thin line between wry critic and jaded grump.

Yes, he crosses that line for sure, but so do I! hah!

I can't help but think he is somewhat of a celebrity given how often he contributes to printed pubs like Bicycling and the likes. And how he can regularly contribute to that extent daily to his blog and update it at pretty much the same time. A lot of time goes into his blogs. I am sure he goes here for material too.

Yes.

Here's one --

"I see more exciting cycling in a single morning going over the bridge to Manhattan than I’ve seen in the last three Tours combined. If you haven’t experienced the thrill of hitting the base of the Manhattan Bridge bike lane at a blistering 15 MPH with an elite group consisting of a young guy on a Bianchi Pista with chopped flat bars, a middle-aged gentleman on an dayglo mountain bike with thumbshifters and a chipped and yellowed pie plate, and a woman on a Bianchi Volpe with fully-loaded panniers and a blinky light on the back of her helmet, then you don’t know what a real shot of adrenaline feels like. Who will take the KOM is anybody’s guess, and the drama on the descent is twice as gripping. (My money’s always on the woman with the Volpe due to her ability to coast coupled with the weight of the panniers.) I’m seriously considering building myself a little crow’s nest and broadcasting blow-by-blow commentary on weekday mornings. It would make Versus Tour de France coverage look like the "Antiques Roadshow." "

From the post linked above:

"This is because buying a new bike is like sex in that it’s impossible to get right the first time. Nobody can tell you how to do it. You’ve got to make your mistakes yourself.

Of course, if you’re considering a new bike purchase, you should do your homework, you should ask people for advice, and you should shop around. But you should also realize that since you’re not a cyclist yet you haven’t learned what kind of cyclist you are yet either, so you don’t know what kind of bike you need. Just jump in, buy what you can afford and what makes sense at the time, and try to ask a reasonable price when you put it on Craigslist six months later to buy the bike you now know you need."